Modern Coin Low Mintages

Hi All,

Does anyone know of an online resource that has a list of the lowest mintage modern day USA coins (Pennies thru Half Dollars)? What I mean by modern day is from like 1960 to Present including all mint marks. Thank you. John

 

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the red book has mintages

 

If you believe the published numbers then the lowest regular issue modern would be the '76-P type I Ike at about four million. I've seen mintage figures that are both lower and higher for this coin. I suspect the actual mintage might be substantially higher.

Interestingly this coin almost always comes as a mess even in the mint set. Nice choice examples account for only about 3% of production and true Gems are scarce to rare. Despite this they list for only $6 in MS-63 in the redbook. These are found circulated with little effort so availability is quite thin.

There are lots of better moderns but this coin is almost the poster child to show how little appreciation and demand exists.

 

To be comprehensive I should add that in those days production numbers and numismatic production numbers were reported separately. There are another 2 million coins in mint sets making a total of about 6 million. Keep in mind though that about half the mint set coins have been placed into circulation.

Bottom line is about one million coins made for circulation probably survive in rolls and one million made for mint sets survive as singles or in sets. The other 4 million coins are in VF+ to AU+ in FED storage and sock drawers.

 

The 2009 P&D nickels and dimes must be low. I've still only seen one 2009 D dime in circulation.

 

49,500,000 2009 D dimes were minted. In Montana all you is D everything.

 

Yes, I have the D. I now need the P.

 

the lowest half is the army commem half. as a matter of fact the army half is the lowest mintage coin that fits your criteria

 

there were some low mintage coins in the "botanical" set also

 

technically the 5 oz pucks are monetized at 25 cents and they have low mintages

 

Thanks Danr for pointing out the coins produced only for collectors, some very low mintages in that group. A few more are the uncirculated modern commemoratives with mintages comparable to the classic commemoratives, special issue ASE's, silver proof sets, satin mint sets, Kennedy Half Dollars, and unc S-Mint rolls of AtB Quarters. I'm sure others can add more. Speaking of AtB Quarters, many circulation P&D AtB’s have mintages in the 20M range.

 

Redbook has your technical answers. If by asking about low mintages you are trying to see what may appreciate more in the future, that is always a risk. Mintage does not equate survival rate nor demand.

 

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